Best PlacesBrooklyn, KY Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Brooklyn, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. Several measures below read low, and the ranked lists name which ones. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.
Brooklyn ranks 39,723rd of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. The schools pulls hardest against it, while it scores best on a stable housing market.
The best neighborhoods in Brooklyn
BestNeighborhood is the only ranking that scores 40 measures of daily life neighborhood by neighborhood and lets you re-weight every one of them yourself.
Brooklyn's strengths and weaknesses
Where Brooklyn ranks high
- Housing crash safetyBetter than 90% of towns
- Low property taxBetter than 85% of towns
- Tree shadeBetter than 73% of towns
- Cheap childcare$660 a month, better than 71% of towns
- Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than 67% of towns
Where Brooklyn ranks low
- School gradeD, better than only 9% of towns
- Educational attainmentBetter than only 10% of towns
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than only 14% of towns
- Nice weatherabout 65 pleasant days a year, better than only 17% of towns
- WalkabilityBetter than only 19% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Brooklyn
A household needs to earn about $35,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Brooklyn home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $63,379, so a typical household can afford the median home outright.
Where the monthly payment goes
Assumes a 20% down payment, a 6.6% 30-year fixed rate, and a 28% share of income going to the payment. The rate is the 2026-07-23 30-year fixed average, series MORTGAGE30US from the St. Louis Fed, which publishes Freddie Mac's weekly survey. Against the median home value, property tax uses Brooklyn's effective rate of 0.43%, and insurance is estimated at 0.4% of home value a year.
Renting versus buying
At today's prices, buying tends to cost more than renting for about the first 4 years, then pulls ahead as rent keeps rising and the mortgage builds equity. The chart tracks the running cost of each.
Who lives in Brooklyn
Brooklyn runs older than the country.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Brooklyn.
Who works in Brooklyn, and how
Work in Brooklyn centers on manufacturing and health care & social. Unemployment is close to the national rate, and employment has held roughly flat.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 96%
- Work from home 1%
- Transit, walk, or bike 3%
Life in Brooklyn
The map and measures below break down dining, culture, and green space by neighborhood across Brooklyn.
What the weather is like in Brooklyn, month by month
Brooklyn sees roughly 65 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 90 degrees. January highs sit near 48, with lows near 31. The comfortable stretch runs April, May, September, and October.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 48° | 38° | 31° |
| April | 72° | 60° | 49° |
| July | 90° | 80° | 72° |
| October | 74° | 62° | 51° |
Flying in and out of Brooklyn
The nearest airport, Owensboro/Daviess County Regional, is about 47 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is Nashville International, about 73 miles away.
The best schools in and around Brooklyn
Schools across Brooklyn average a D, better than 9% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- North Butler ElementaryD+ · 22% proficient
- Morgantown Elementary SchoolD · 19% proficient
Top middle schools
- Butler County Middle SchoolD · 22% proficient
Top high schools
- Butler County High SchoolD · 20% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Brooklyn school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Brooklyn measure by measure
Cards are ordered by how much each measure matters to you, so the ones you weighted highest come first. Expand to see every measure. Percentages compare Brooklyn against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Brooklyn
Is Brooklyn a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Brooklyn ranks 39,723rd of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on a stable housing market, low property taxes, and tree cover, and lowest on the schools and education levels. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Brooklyn expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $139,476. The overall cost of living runs about 19% below the national average. Set against a $63,379 median income, cost of living beats 40% of towns.
Is Brooklyn safe?
Brooklyn is safer than 22% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $405 per resident a year.
Compare Brooklyn with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Brooklyn. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Brooklyn represents the same real quantity as a 60 anywhere else, and the ranking is a weighted average of those absolutes. The map colors come from a national scale calibrated against a population weighted random sample of 5,000 neighborhoods. That absolute scoring is what no other places-to-live ranking does: it puts a single neighborhood, a town, a metro, and a state on one scale, so the same 40 measures answer both which metro to move to and which street inside it to buy on. Read the full methodology.
Brooklyn detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Brooklyn: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Brooklyn: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Brooklyn: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Brooklyn: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Brooklyn detail on related sites:
- CrimeGrade: neighborhood crime rates behind the crime safety score.
- ISPreports.org: provider by provider internet availability and advertised speeds.
- CoverageWatch: the car insurance premiums behind the cheap car insurance score.
Federal and public data:
- U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey: income, home value, rent, vacancy, commute time and mode, educational attainment, home age, age structure, household type, industry, and race.
- NOAA Global Surface Summary of the Day: the daily station record behind the monthly temperatures and the pleasant-day count.
- FAA Passenger Boarding Data: airport size and annual passenger counts.
- Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey: the 30-year fixed rate used in the cost-to-buy estimate.
- FBI Crime Data Explorer: reported offenses behind the tangible crime cost estimate.
- U.S. EPA Air Quality System: five year average air quality index.
- FEMA National Risk Index: expected annual loss from natural hazards.
- CDC PLACES: disease burden, preventable risk, and barriers to care.
- National Center for Education Statistics: school enrollment and assessment inputs behind the school grade.
- FCC National Broadband Map: internet and wireless availability.
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: employment and job growth behind the local economy score.
- Religious activity uses a proprietary religious signal measurement.
Your priorities
Move a slider to say how much a measure matters. Zero turns it off.